Williamsburg

Modern day America has come a long way from its beginning years. Not only has the language improved and has grown greatly over the years, but so has the country’s culture and most importantly its population. A lot has improved over the years, and although there are still traces of fear of uncertainty amongst the world, many things have changed over time. America no longer fears attacks from the Native Americans, most diseases now have easily accessible cures, and the majority of America no…

A Cry For Freedom “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” (Jefferson 1776). A prominent and well-known proverb world-wide and an even more common train of thought; this ideal served to largely influence and spark The American Revolution. The British established superiority over the colonists time after time, and this led to an outburst. The atmosphere of revolution had even been floating about in the air for many years prior to the declaration of the…

Revolutionary War women followed their husbands to war out of necessity. Many served in military camps as laundresses, cooks, and nurses, but only with permission from the commanding officers and only if they proved they were helpful” (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2008). Although women weren’t officially enlisted into the Army service at that time, they proved to…

By the late seventeenth early eighteenth centuries, the southern colonies was immersed in a labor transition from indentured servitude to slavery. Indentured servants were under a labor contract which consisted of passage to the British colonies with the repayment made by services provided at a plantations for a term of four to seven years, and once the term was completed, they would receive 50 acres. This labor system began to decline for various reasons, such as economic stability in England,…

For Georgia O’Keeffe America was her canvas. The vibrant colors of her life and legacy left brilliant marks on history and how we view American art and artists today. As a small girl from Sun Prairie Wisconsin no one expected her to become as successful as she was (Unknown B 1). With the help of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz and her talent she went on to create masterful works (Unknown B 1). O’Keeffe once said, “To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” (Unknown F 1). From her…

The American National Identity and Ethnocentric Attitudes In America, there is the widely celebrated notion that anyone can achieve success and experience freedom and justice with hard work. However, there is also the contentious view that America was built upon structures of racial and social hierarchies. According to Samuel P. Huntington in his book Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, he argues that even though the salience of American national identity is always…

Benjamin Franklin, one of the most well-known of the United States’ founding fathers, was also a writer. He created works to say something to society and try to teach others new or important concepts. Many of these concepts, or themes, attempt to show us as people how we should treat or think of others. For many, these lessons have been necessary to help initiate cultural reform, and, if they challenged societal norms, been considered madness. These outlandish morals typically tell society that…

Bonanno Italian mafia crime family’s origins go back to the beginning, in Sicily. In 1908 Salvatore Bonanno moved his family to New York. There he quickly took over the Bonanno-Magaddino-Bonventre clan and ran all business in the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Later he returned to Sicily and died of a heart attack in 1915. The clan went through several leaders until in 1927 the Castellammarese War broke out between the two rival criminals in New York, the Castellammarese Clan was…

The New England society of the Massachusetts bay colony and the Chesapeake colony of Virginia were different in development by the distinctive groups of colonist that built up their towns, religiously persecuted families that were looking to establish a perfect church society in the New England region, where as young single men came to look for gold and wealth in the Chesapeake region. Because of this difference in types of colonists, there was a major difference in the type of economy that came…

Many people came to the New World looking for new possibilities, freedom, and a place to settle and become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America”…